Submitted by:
Robert Haddock


BATEMAN, MELBA CLARK BOWERS

Surnames:  BATEMAN, CLARK, BOWERS, STEPHENS, BLACKFORD, MULLINS, DAVIS, PAGE, HORNE, MIRACLE, DuBOSE, HOLLAND.

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Marlin, Falls Co., Texas
Monday, October 13, 1952
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MRS. WAYNE BATEMAN
NATIVE OF BLEVINS
DIES AT WAXAHACHIE
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       Mrs. Wayne Bateman, age 42, died at Waxahachie on Saturday, October 11, 1952 at 5:30 p.m. following a prolonged illness.
       Mrs. Bateman was a native of the Blevins community in Falls County, where she was born December 10, 1909.  She was formerly Miss Melba Clark Bowers, her parents are Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Bowers of the Blevins community.  She graduated from the Eddy High School and was married to Wayne Bateman of Eddy, twenty-two years ago.  Mr. Bateman has been engaged in the farm implement business formerly at Temple and was at Denton before moving to Waxahachie about a year ago as he continued his farm implement business connections.
       Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Monday from the First Methodist Church at Eddy, Rev. Oran Stephens and Rev. Kenneth Blackford officiating.  Burial was in the Eddy cemetery.
       She is survived by her husband, Wayne Bateman, one son, Wayne Bateman, Jr., and a daughter, Martha Alice Bateman, all of Waxahachie.  Her parents Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Bowers of Blevins.  One brother, O. L. Bowers Jr. of Austin.  Two sisters, Mrs. Earl Mullins, of Eddy and Mrs. Joseph Davis in England.
       Active pallbearers were T. L. Page, Marvin Horne, H. N. Horne, Cecil Miracle, Lt. T. Dubose, and John Holland.

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Typed as spelled and written:
Lena Stone Criswell